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U0180 Modérée Générique / SAE

U0180: Perte de communication avec le calculateur d'éclairage automatique

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Que faire

Take the light switch off AUTO and operate the lights yourself until this is fixed.

But first, find out which way your car has failed, because it matters. Leave the switch on AUTO and look at the headlights in a shaded spot or at dusk.

If the lights have come on and stayed on, that is the car failing safely. Slightly wasteful — and on some cars they will not switch off with the ignition, which flattens the battery overnight, so check when you park.

If nothing comes on at all, that is the version to take seriously. Leaving the switch on AUTO would give you no lights in exactly the conditions the system exists for.

And there is something worth knowing here even after it is fixed, because it catches people in perfectly healthy cars. Your daytime running lights are at the front only. In fog, heavy rain or fading light you see a well-lit road ahead and a fully lit dashboard while showing nothing at all at the back. Switch the headlights on properly, and check the rear lights are actually lit — in a shop window, or by asking somebody. A lit dashboard proves nothing.

One cheap check: is anything covering the light sensor? It is a small dome on the windscreen, usually near the mirror. A dashcam, phone mount or tint strip over it is a common cause — as is a windscreen replaced without the sensor being properly transferred.

Ce que signifie ce code

The automatic lighting module has stopped being heard from. The general reasoning is at U0100, and U0481 carries the safety argument — that daytime running lights are at the front only, so a driver in fog or failing light sees a lit road and a lit dashboard while showing nothing at the back.

Silence adds one thing to that page, and it is worth checking rather than assuming: which way the vehicle has failed.

Most vehicles fail these systems on. With nothing telling it what the light level is, the safe assumption is darkness, so the lights come on and stay on — which is correct behaviour and mildly wasteful.

Some fail off, and that is the dangerous one, because a driver who leaves the switch on AUTO gets nothing at all in exactly the conditions the system exists for.

So the instruction is to establish which, and it takes ten seconds: leave the switch on AUTO, park somewhere shaded or wait for dusk, and look at whether the headlights are on. Then switch to manual regardless and leave it there until the fault is fixed.

And if the lights have failed on, two consequences follow that are worth knowing. The vehicle may not switch them off with the ignition on some designs, which flattens a battery overnight — and where the lights are halogen rather than LED, bulb life is measured in hours of use and a set left on permanently will start failing within months.

Where the fault usually is: the light sensor is a small dome on the glass, wired up the A-pillar or across the headlining, so windscreen replacement, mirror work, a dashcam installation and a headlining drop all put hands on it. A fault dating from any of those is that connector rather than the module.

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